4 May

Zoom

Climate conversation: Mitigation - challenges, opportunities and ways forward

seminars, workshops |
A yellow flower in cracked soil. Photo.

Climate mitigation is a wicked problem as attempts to ‘fix’ one part of the system creates new challenges in another part. SLU:s Future platforms and SLU Global invite you to a webinar focused on different mitigation approaches, potential rebound effects, democratic concerns and new imaginaries. Most welcome!

When? 4 May 2022, 9.00-10.30 (CET)

Where? via Zoom 

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Note: the event was recorded. If you would like to watch our webinars, see link to the overall climate conversations page under Facts below

 

In the beginning of April 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group III releases the sixth assessment report, this time on the theme of Mitigation, debating climate action that reduces the severity, seriousness, or even painfulness of the climate crisis. Indeed, all the IPCC assessment reports concern and show the urgency and severe consequences for humans, animals and ecosystems that follow current climate changes. The need for action is immediate.

Read the Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, AR6 Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.

"Wicked" problems call for collaboration across disciplines and sectors

The complexity and systemic character of these challenges, that can be described as wicked problems, call for collaboration across disciplines and sectors. Too many previous climate mitigation attempts have resulted in rebound effects, where attempts to ‘fix’ one part of the system creates new challenges in another part of the system.

Therefore SLUs Future Platforms and SLU Global invite you to a Climate Conversations seminar on the theme of Mitigation: challenges, opportunities and ways forward. Having the IPCC Mitigation report in mind, we wish to draw attention towards different mitigation approaches, potential rebound effects, democratic concerns and new imaginaries; thus in line with Hannah Knox: “climate action requires new modes of relating to climate”.  

Program

8:45 - Zoom webinar will open

9:00 - Welcome by Nina Vogel & Susanna Sternberg Lewerin

Introduction by Nina Vogel

9:05 - Why wicked problems call for democratic solutions?, Daniel Lindvall, Researcher at Uppsala University, Climate Change Leadership

9:20 - The climate challenge: From wicked to super wicked problem-solving in the context of local governance, Carlo Aall, Professor at Western Norway Research Institute

9:40 - Redesigning farming for climate change adaptation and mitigation, Riccardo Bommarco, Professor at SLU, Department of Ecology 

9:50 - Mitigation of GHG from livestock - how far has research come?, Mikaela Lindberg, Senior Lecturer at SLU, Department of Animal Nutrition and Management

10:00 - CLIMAGINARIES: building new low-carbon imaginaries through modelling and artistic approaches, Lisette van Beek, PhD candidate on ‘Climaginaries’ at Utrecht University

10.10 - Panel discussion

10:28 - Concluding remarks

More information about the speakers

Facts

Time: 2022-05-04 09:00 - 10:30
City: Zoom
Organiser: SLU Global, SLU Future One Health, SLU Urban Futures, SLU Future Forests and SLU Future Food.
Last signup date: 2 May 2022
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Background

In 2021 and 2022, the IPCC will launch its sixth assessment report, presenting the current scientific knowledge in reports on the physical science basis, mitigation, impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The first part by Working group 1, got a lot of attention in Sweden and globally when it was released summer 2021. The last IPCC assessment report came in 2014 and provided the scientific basis for the Paris Agreement. 

SLU Global, SLU Future One Health, SLU Urban Futures, SLU Future Food and SLU Future Forests take the launch of the IPCC reports as an opportunity to increase the scientific conversation about climate change across disciplines at SLU, with a serie of internal scientific dialogues, as well as open seminars with both external and SLU participants.  

Previous and upcoming CC-events

Read more about previous and upcoming events under our Climate Conversations page.